BD Metrics wants to help trade show organizers catch up with the “YouTube effect” by offering TradeshowTV, a product that allows them to set up their own CNN-type news desk to broadcast show news from their organization’s Web site...

Meeting and incentive groups who recognize Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts as Asia’s leading luxury hotel group don’t have too much longer to wait for the brand to debut in North America and Europe. In 2008, the first Canadian property will open in...

The Culinary Workers Local 226 and the Bartenders Union Local 165, both based in Las Vegas, agreed to a five-year collective bargaining agreement with the Las Vegas Hilton, a major convention property in the city...

Roughly half of all Americans are more likely to choose airlines, hotels, and rental car companies that are environmentally responsible, but not if the price tag is too high...

Certified Meeting Professionals, while mostly satisfied with the value they get from achieving this professional designation, are looking for improvements to the program, according to a new survey of current and past CMPs commissioned by the...

Passkey International Inc., Quincy, Mass., which offers an Internet-based technology that allows hotels and planners to manage group hotel reservations, has come out with a new product called EventExpress that offers most of the functionality of...

San Francisco International Airport in mid-September opened Registered Traveler lanes designed to speed enrolled travelers through airport security. Verified Identity Pass’s Clear program opened the express security lanes September 18 at both of...

Meeting Professionals International is making changes to its Professional Education Conference-Europe for 2008—including a new name. The London event, rechristened The European Meetings and Events Conference, marks the first time MPI has brought...

After a four-month reprieve, U.S. citizens must again present a passport when flying to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda...

The benchmarks are in, and the numbers are huge: U.S. companies spent $46 billion on travel and merchandise incentives in 2006, according to a study sponsored by the Incentive Federation, an umbrella organization that conducts lobbying and...